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<p>Maintaining quality jobs benefitting from the skills and experience of the UK’s
oil and gas sector will be a key focus as the UK moves to a net zero economy. The
industry is already strongly focussed on its role to support net zero by using the
skills and expertise developed in the North Sea to become part of the solution to
the challenges that the transition to a net zero economy will bring.</p><p> </p><p>The
Department has not made an estimate of the number of jobs on offshore oil and gas
installations on the UK Continental Shelf, but figures provided in the Oil and Gas
UK Workforce Report 2019, suggest a recent stabilisation in the total number of offshore
oil and gas workers (not broken down into oil and gas separately) at approximately
49,000. See the following weblink:</p><p><a href="https://oilandgasuk.co.uk/product/workforce-report/"
target="_blank">https://oilandgasuk.co.uk/product/workforce-report/</a></p><p> </p><p>The
Department has not made an assessment of trends in the level of those jobs in each
year from 2020 to 2030, but the offshore industry skills body OPITO has published
two recent reports on future trends in the level of jobs supported by the UK Continental
Shelf oil and gas industry up to 2035. See the following weblinks:</p><p><a href="https://www.opito.com/policy-and-research/research/ukcs-workforce-dynamics-review"
target="_blank">https://www.opito.com/policy-and-research/research/ukcs-workforce-dynamics-review</a></p><p><a
href="https://www.opito.com/policy-and-research/research/the-skills-landscape" target="_blank">https://www.opito.com/policy-and-research/research/the-skills-landscape</a></p><p>
</p><p>Future employment levels are subject to a wide range of factors, not least
the oil price, and we are supporting the sector on several fronts, as we recognise
that a successful offshore industry will continue to generate and protect jobs.</p>
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